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**Bridgester** · 05-14-2010, 09:22 AM

from post #8

Buddhism's central insight is that suffering arises dependent up craving at sense contact, due to ignorance. TNH's idea of social "interdependence" as a Buddhist tenet is a modern invention, and irrelevant in the context of Theravada Buddhism.

05-14-2010, 09:22 AM	#12
Bridgester Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 491 Senior Member	from post #8 Buddhism's central insight is that suffering arises dependent up craving at sense contact, due to ignorance. TNH's idea of social "interdependence" as a Buddhist tenet is a modern invention, and irrelevant in the context of Theravada Buddhism.
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